[Cz-L] Holocaust victims list at Yad-Vashem

Dear Mimi,

Thanks for sending out this suggestion. I recommend it to everyone on this list.

I have been checking Yad Vashem for years as they added people first on computer printouts sent by mail and then online. I have found a number of my relatives from Storozynetz, Bukovina and Tirgu Frumos, Romania. In a few cases, I added my own page of testimony because the ones that had been submitted previously (usually in the 1950s, but some as late as the '70s) had incomplete information in terms of maiden names, names of parents or siblings, place of birth or residence, occupation, etc.

It was also fascinating to discover WHO submitted the pages of testimony -- other relatives, friends, or government archives. In one case, I discovered that the submitter of the pages for his parents in the '50s was a Storozynetzer who I did not know had survived exile by the Russians to Siberia.

Unfortunately, we still have some relatives of whom we do not know their fate. I keep checking YV to see if anything surfaces. Less than a year ago, three cousins from Tirgu Frumos appeared in the database from the addition of Romanian government archives. We knew they died in the Shoah, but this was the first documentation. In the same way, the Romanian archives documented that a great aunt Clara Kantorji Schaeffler had died at a camp in Czernowitz. We knew that her husband, Shimon Schaeffler, the leader of the Jewish Kultesgemeinde of Storozynetz was shot by the Nazis the day they arrived, but we had not known what happened to her.

It can sometimes be very upsetting to make these discoveries, but I believe that it is always better to know.

Keep up the good work,

Marc

 Marc M. Cohen, Arch.D, Architect
Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
TEL +1 650 218-8119 Mobile

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From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: CZERNOWITZ-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 11:43:17 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Holocaust victims list at Yad-Vashem

Yad Vashem in an effort to register the names of all who died because of the
Holocaust, has working teams who take photographs of monuments in
cemeteries, memorial plaques and implements inscribed with the names of
victims in synagogues and others who search book dedications and
inscriptions.

If any of you know the names of people who died in the Holocaust, please
access the Yad-Vashem site, <www.yadvashem.org.il>,
Go to <Shoah Victims' Names> and check whether the names you know are
included among those who died.
If they are not included, please fill out a page of testimony, so their
names can be added to the list .

Mimi
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